| the Armed CONVENTICLE: W O R S H I P |
| ...evil works are not only those expressly done against God's command, but also, in religious matters and the worship of God, those things which have no other warrant than the invention and opinion of man. |
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| The Scriptural position on worship was well stated in the Scots' Confession: |
| The Westminster Confession of faith is also clear: |
| ...the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by Himself, and so limited by His own revealed will, that He may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture. |
| Simply put, this means that we are not to be CREATIVE, but BIBLICAL in our worship. We should sing the Psalms, not human hymns - "acapella" (as in chapel) - without instruments. The Westminster Directory for Worship tells us: |
| THERE is no day commanded in scripture to be kept holy under the gospel but the Lord's day, which is the Christian Sabbath Festival days, vulgarly called Holy-days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued. |
| This means that Protestants have no business copying silly pagan "holidays" from the Papists! Click below for more info: WHY I DON'T DO CHRISTMAS ! WHAT'S WRONG WITH EASTER? CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: Creative or Traditional? |
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| John Knox, Reformer of Scotland |
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| SOLA SCRIPTURA |
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